Virginia House
VIRGINIA HOUSE, CHEAPSIDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235834
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Virginia House
- Statutory Address:
- VIRGINIA HOUSE, CHEAPSIDE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235834
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Virginia House
- Statutory Address 1:
- VIRGINIA HOUSE, CHEAPSIDE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- VIRGINIA HOUSE, CHEAPSIDE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Langport
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4198826807
Details
LANGPORT CP CHEAPSIDE (North side)
ST4126
10/97 Virginia House
(formerly listed as House
immediately opposite Langport
Arms Hotel)
17.4.59
GV II
Detached House. C17 origins, C18 modifications. Local lias stone cut and squared, Ham stone dressings; Welsh slate roof
between coped gables; brick and stone chimney stacks. Two storeys with attic; 3-bay west elevation, at right angles to
road. Sash windows of 12 panes set in plain openings, the lower with voussoired flat heads; to bay 2 a part-glazed door
with stone architrave and pedimented hood on console brackets; C20 flat roofed dormer window over bay 2. Single-storey
extension to north west corner. South gable, street side, has composite 4+12+4 pane sash window under brick voussoired
segmental arched head, with matching window above under flat head, both set between pronounced straight joints; 12-pane
sash window in gable. Linking this property with Langport Stores (qv) a tall wall with pitched coping, and an opening
over which is a reset pedimented stone doorhood on console brackets. Inside, elegant divided staircase, possibly late
C18; some early roof timbers. Attached to south west corner of house railings of square rods with alternate barbed
spearpoints and collared points, on low stone base, with two gates, plain with diagonal brace; the other possibly late
C18, with oval and scroll decorations. (VAG Report, SRO Unpublished, 1979).
Listing NGR: ST4198826807
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263162
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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